HEIR IN WORKHOUSE
A 6S-year-old inmate of one of the institutions of the Manchester Board of Guardians is now belieA r ed to be the heir to the £50,000 hoard of cash and securities discovered on the death of ■Miss Clara Alice Jones, the eccentric Manchester recluse, who had lived alone surrounded by moneybags, in a dilapidated house in Rice Street, Liverpool Road. Manchester, for a number of years (says the GlasgoAV Herald). His nam e is Higgins, and he has been an inmate at Withington for the last 20 years. He deriv'es his kinship from the fact that Miss Jones’ mother, Sarah Watts, had a sister, Avho married. Higgins is stated to be a son of that marriage and is, there 1 - fore, a cousin on the mother’s side, to MiSs Jones. Mr Wolstenholme, a solicitor, stated that dozens of calims to the fortune had been received from districts as far apart as Aberdeen and the South of. England. Many of the claims Avere absolutely groundless. A pathetic feature of the funeral at Manchester of Miss Jones Avas that on .the coffin Avas only one Avreath. A number of mourners included some of the: dead woman’s tenants.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 7
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198HEIR IN WORKHOUSE Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 7
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